Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies [Hardcover]

Jack Uldrich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2008

"Jump the Curve" will show how exponential trends in eight areas - computers, data storage, bandwidth, software development, gene sequencing, robotics, nanotechnology, and the advance of knowledge itself - are transforming the global economy and altering our future. The book then proceeds in a easy-to-understand (non-technical) style to describe the eight essential elements that business executives and their organisations can - and must - incorporate into their planning in order to deal with today's explosive and emerging economy including: leveraging today's technology to meet tomorrow's needs; developing counter-intuitive thought skills; tapping into the power of diversity; and, "Learning to unlearn."While scores of books from "The World is Flat" to "The Tipping Point" have done excellent jobs of explaining the effect of accelerating technologies, "Jump the Curve" defines the nature of technological change itself and shows readers how they, and their organisations can benefit from the knowledge.

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About the Author

Jack Uldrich is the president of The NanoVeritas Group, an international consultancy helping organisations navigate through these exponential times. Clients include leading venture capital firms, state governments, and Fortune 100 companies. Uldrich's work has appeared in many business publications including The Wall Street Journal.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Platinum Press (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598694200
• ISBN-13: 978-1598694208
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,198,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Jump the Curve, January 10, 2008

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John Rossman (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies (Hardcover)

This is a brilliant book. The author gives many thought-provoking examples of how to anticipate and leverage exponentially changing technology in business and in life. It also examines previous advancements in a variety of fields and provides all of the tools necessary for anyone to innovate in literally any context. I especially enjoyed the discussion of how the greatest inventions draw on elements found in nature. Every groundbreaking concept in the book was supported by quotes or citations to great thinkers or books. Perhaps most importantly, the book is written in a way that is easy to understood and apply. This should be required reading for anyone looking to get ahead through (or stay ahead of) innovation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this book., February 2, 2008

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Brian J. Hanf (Crystal, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies (Hardcover)

Once I started reading I could not put it down! The combination of explanation through story telling, research into future (and emerging) technologies, and sound business advice and strategies makes this a must read for anyone. I believe that the target audience might be the "business" person but with such a clear explanation of how nano-technology, robotics, RFID and other future technologies will bring exponential changes to every field, every high school student in America should read it. Jack Uldrich's 50 strategies for change management will help lead the business person down a path to manage your business with an eye toward jumping the curve.

I'd also encourage every educator in America to read this book because exponential advances in technology will not simply change what our students need to learn, it will also transform the tools and methods teachers will need in order to convey this new knowledge to there students.

As Uldrich points out, knowledge itself is growing exponentially. Therefore, if educators want their students to prosper in this era of accelerating change it is no longer enough that they just stay ahead of the curve, they must learn to jump the curve. This books shows them how.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worthy ideas on growing your company, exponentially., May 1, 2009

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Kevin Custer "Arc Capital Development" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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Jack looks at emerging technology and how managers and organizations can get ahead of the curve by "jumping" it. Uldrich exposes both the opportunities and pitfalls of focusing on incremental and linear growth. Rather than aiming to be the next management fad or trend, Uldrich's book is a good wake-up call for executives to focus on what is possible and how to help their companies and teams look at the future.

Uldrich shows how knowledge itself is growing exponentially, and looks especially at the need for transformation in our educational system to help prepare our workforce. Regardless of your specific industry, "Jump the Curve" is a valuable book that inspires readers to stop and think about how events today will change your company and industry
tomorrow.